Posted on 12/14/2015 3:36:55 AM PST by markomalley
Ditto. And this even started before Cruz was elected, when Mitch McConnell was bankrolling Cruz' primary opponent David Dewhurst.
I think this quote sums up Cruz supporters perfectly -
...”have you ever tried to convince a 17-year-old teenager their boyfriend is wrong for them”?...
I would fully expect Trump to choose a fellow Democrat as his running mate.
Are you serious?
Did I say he’s unliked by the conservatives? I did’t mean to put conservatives in the hat as ALL conservatives like Cruz, and probably MOST conservative like TRump, but the non-conservatives, you know, like the people you need to have vote for you, they dislike Cruz more than they do Trump.
REmember the Bill Buckley rule. You run the candidate who is the most electably conservative.
The only published attack I have seen by Cruz on Trump has come from the Trump camp. Just sayin'.
But the one Clinton v. Trump vision that sticks in my mind is seeing Hillary ads stating how Trump was one of her campaign supporters.
And one more thing. I think it’s a two way deal here between those two. I think Cruz can learn from Trump and Trump can sure as heck learn from Cruz. I really sense that there’s chemistry between the two of them. Trump is not attacking Cruz personally, he’s once again going to the heart of the issue. Cruz is the trouble maker, the squeaky gate, and it’s true he ticked off a lot of people, people like it or not have a lot of clout. NOthing succeeds like success. When Trump starts winning his negotiating capital goes up with the RNC. They will soon realize that they stand to win really big with him. Trump will soothe their ruffled feathers. Notice every time now he mentions Bush or Rubio or Rand Paul, he prefaces it with “these are good people, but....etc.”
Cruz lost me when Americans are out of work yet he demanded 325,000 more foreign tech workers be allowed in this year alone while companies were firing Americans to hire the cheap foreigners.
The debate tomorrow will be INTERESTING. I hate to see Ted and Donald fighting but I guess it had to be.
Oh please. Trump brags all the time about how great a dealmaker he is.
When I lived in Chicago I voted for the senior Mayor Daly, because, he got the job done. There was never a candidate on the republican side who came close to him. I think I voted for the son a couple times too. They are the votes I’ve ever cast for a democrat in over 40 years of voting.
People will vote for Trump because they know he’ll protect us along with the other. He’s selling a dream, a goal, an America that once was.
Cruz and the others are too young to know that America. IT’s the pre-Kennedy assassination. IT’s when you could keep your doors unlocked, walk on sidewalks on warm summer nights in your neighborhoods, show up at the last minute to catch a plane etc. Sure we were making shoddy products back then, because wee got fat and lazy until the Japanese showed us, but it was an American who showed the Japanese how to make quality products.
WE can be that America again can have a true reset. Hillary Clinton? Is anyone seriously going to vote for her? Do you know anyone who is going to vote for her other than die hard liberals, and I think they’re going to stay home if Bernie doesn’t get the nod.
What if Bernie Sanders wins NH?
“But I agree with Trump that Cruz’s ineffectiveness as a legislator (which is very dramatic) is not a sign of future success in the realm of electoral politics.”
How will Trump, who will tick the legislative branch off ten times as much as Cruz ever has, be able to make any difference? The answer is he will not. At least Cruz has experience in Congress. Trump has never held any public office.
I think I’ve said that’s the only thing Trump has supported that stumps me. Why does he support Ethanol subsidies? Maybe we don’t really know the truth about the Ethanol industry. Someone posted here that Ethanol does not receive gov’t support and it’s made from corn cobs not real food, but is that true?
I hear that Ethanol is not really good for your car’s engine.
So, once again what is fact and what is fiction here?
LOL.
Let's see Donald Trump try to find a 'fatal flaw' in Ted Cruz's conservatism. We'll wait.
Nobody likes Hillary, even more so.
Well he’s said a few other things that should stump you too....but thanks for admitting that this is a head scratcher.
Ethanol is bad on car engines and HORRIBLE on boat engines.
I think Cruz would be a great VP, even better on the SCOTUS
He is correct that the Left needs for him and Trump to be in a cage match, and while I still consider Trump a viable second, I'm not too thrilled with the way he's approaching it.
That said, it's politics and they both need to separate themselves from the other to gain the upper hand - will be interesting because Trump is pretty much a blunt weapon and Cruz can adapt from a scalpel to a blunt weapon as necessary...
I’m thinking Trump would let the free market deal with Ethanol. He’d take away any subsidies. I’d like to know if it actually is cleaner? It makes me sick to think that they’re taking food to make something that goes in an engine.
Clearly, you deny reality...and lost your credibility.
A few Cruz accomplishments include:
- Silence during Mississippi RNC voter fraud
- Voting for the infamous Corker bill
- Voting for TPA
- Now pushing Pathway Amnesty for the 40+ MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS in America
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